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Book SynopsisThroughout the last century, there has been continuous study of Paul as a writer of letters. Although this fact was acknowledged by previous generations of scholars, it was during the twentieth century that the study of ancient letter-writing practices came to the fore and began to be applied to the study of the letters of the New Testament. This volume seeks to advance the discussion of Paul's relationship to Greek epistolary traditions by evaluating the nature of ancient letters as well as the individual letter components. These features are evaluated alongside Paul's letters to better understand Paul's use and adaptations of these traditions in order to meet his communicative needs.Trade ReviewIl volume…offre una rassegna pressoché complete del panorama epistolare e rappresenta uno strumento prezioso per gli studiosi dell’epistolario paolino Antonio Landi, Asprenas 58 (2011) It is clear that the contributions to this volume, summarizing and assessing previous research and sometimes also treading some new paths of study on some of the most important elements of the Pauline letters, are more than welcome. Bart J. Koet, Bijdragen, International Journal in Philosophy and Theology 73.1Table of ContentsPauline Epistolography: An Introduction Stanley E. Porter and Sean A. Adams A Functional Letter Perspective: Towards a Grammar of Epistolary Form Stanley E. Porter Paul’s Letter Opening and Greek Epistolography: A Matter of Relationship Sean A. Adams How to Begin, and Why? Diverse Functions of the Pauline Prescript within a Greco-Roman Context Philip L. Tite Gospel within the Constraints of an Epistolary Form: Pauline Introductory Thanksgivings and Paul’s Theology of Thanksgiving David W. Pao Paul’s Letter Thanksgiving Peter Arzt-Grabner A Significant Decade: The Trajectory of the Hellenistic Epistolary Thanksgiving Raymond F. Collins Investigating the Pauline Letter Body: Issues, Methods, and Approaches Troy W. Martin A Moral Dilemma? The Epistolary Body of 2 Timothy Cynthia Long Westfall Paul’s Letter Paraeesis Young Chul Whang Index of Modern Authors Index of Ancient Sources

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Book SynopsisNew Testament commentaries and exegetes have not paid sufficient attention to the context in which Paul's Epistel to the Romans was crafted. This book written from an African perspective offers a fresh interpretation on a contextualizing reading of Romans and its theology. The argument of the book is that Paul's construcntion of Abraham as a Spiritual ancestor of "all" faith people was based on his encounter with the Roman Ideology based on Aeneas as the founder of Rome. A juxtaposition of these two canonical ancestors needs to be considered in our 21st multi - ethnic Christian world. Paul's epitsle is not about how God saves the individual human being; rather the debate between Paul and the Jewish - Christian interlocutor is about how families of people and nations establish a kinship with God and one another. The concern with ancestors is apaque to Western Biblical readers and Christians. This is book helps both Westerners and Africans to value ethnic diversity.Table of ContentsPREFACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: The Ancestor in Greco – Roman Culture: The Case of Aeneas CHAPTER TWO: Abraham in Hellenistic – Jewish Context CHAPTER THREE: The Shona Ancestral Cosmology CHAPTER FOUR: Ancestry and Descendancy in Romans CONCLUSION: An Integrative Cross – Cultural Hermeneutic: Implications and Limitations BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisApplying current narrative criticism to the study of the Apocalypse, Hongisto underscores the oral nature of the narrative vis-à-vis the roles of the readers/listeners. EXPERIENCING THE APOCALYPSE AT THE LIMITS OF ALTERITY probes the interplay of meaning creation as readers/listeners encounter the narrative. The author shows how readers/listeners alike partake in the narrative design and become constructors of the narrative, given their own life experiences. Thus, the overarching reading context assists in the creation of a narrativity for the text. The form of the Apocalypse along with its imagistic quality convey a message that is not primarily cognitive, but is delivered and grasped by a sense of alterity encompassing the imaginary world of the text and the real world of the readers/listeners.Table of Contentscontents Introduction Part one Apocalypse , a text looking for a reading Chapter One Critical Orientation 1.1 Questions and Method 1.1.1 Focus and Boundaries 1.1.2 Task 1.2 Some Definitions and Assumptions 1.3 Modalities of Reading 1.3.1 Realist and Non-realist Relation to the Other 1.3.2 A Virtual Text 1.3.3 Shifts in Viewpoints 1.3.4 Text and ‘Site’ Chapter Two Reading the Form of the Apocalypse 2.1 Defining the Form and Function of the Artefact 2.1.1 The Notion of a Setting 2.2 Framing a Hybrid Text 2.2.1 The Role of a Frame 2.3 The Scripture Profile of the Apocalypse 2.3.1 Literary Freedom 2.4 The Apocalypse as Oral Performance 2.4.1 Word-pictures 2.5 Historical, Narrative and Imaginative Qualities 2.6 The Trait of Construction 2.6.1 The Necessity of Selectivity 2.6.2 Transaction Chapter Three Apocalypticality: An Integrating Function 3.1 Imagining the ‘Other’ 3.1.1 The Spectacular 3.1.2 Sequels to Repeated Readings 3.1.3 Staged ‘as if ’ 3.2 Prismatic Reflections 3.2.1 Experience of Cognitive Dissonance 3.3 From Plain Words to Powerful Metaphors 3.3.1 Communal Cognitions 3.3.2 Collective Experience 3.4 Search for a Setting 3.4.1 Exegetical Assumptions and Spiritual Experience Part two Take up and read Take Up and Read Chapter Four Narrative Positioning – Aligning Experiences 4.1 The Narrative Situation – the First Meeting with the ‘Other’ 4.2 Visions of Jesus: Experiencing the Known Anew 4.2.1 Visionary Experiences of Jesus 4.2.2 Corpus of Visionary Sayings 4.3 The Medium of Sharing God’s Knowledge 4.3.1 Deictic Expressions 4.3.2 Gave ‘Him’ 4.3.3 ‘He’ Sent 4.4 The Form of Visionary Appropriation 4.4.1 John’s Own Vision 4.4.2 As He Saw It 4.5 The Sweet Bitterness of Reading Chapter Five Narrator Perspectives – Affirming Narration 5.1 The Narrator as the Experiencer 5.2 Co-Narrator 5.3 Alternating Between Narrator and Co-narrator Chapter Six The Narratee’s Experience – Connectedness of Life 6.1 ‘You’ as Narrative Identity 6.2 The Other as Oneself 6.3 When Narrative Voices Clash 6.4 The Art of Suppleness Chapter Seven Towards an Anatomy of Apocalypticality 7.1 Action Day 7.1.1 Time of Action 7.1.2 Secular and Sacred 7.1.3 Sinners and Saints 7.2 Conceptual Blends and Shifts 7.2.1 Imagistic Cognitions 7.2.2 Alterations 7.2.3 Merging of Time and Eons 7.3 Concentric Spaces Conclusion Postscript Twelve Storyboards of the Apocalypse Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe essays in On the Writing of New Testament Commentaries discuss historical, hermeneutical, methodological, literary, and theological questions that shape the writing of commentaries on the books of the New Testament. While these essays honor Grant R. Osborne, they also represent the first sustained effort to systematically address commentary writing in the field of New Testament studies.Trade Review"As much as this collection of essays offer a helpful and useful “state of the union” on the writing of New Testament commentaries, the essays also reveal how commentaries serve as an excellent test case regarding the ongoing diversity within the study of the Christian (and Hebrew?) Bible." – Edward W. Klink III, in: Review of Biblical Literature (2014) [www.bookreviews.org]Table of ContentsPart I: Commentaries and Exegesis 1. Eckhard J. Schnabel – On Commentary Writing 2. Stanley E. Porter – Linguistic competence of New Testament commentaries 3. Craig L. Blomberg – Genre in Recent New Testament Commentaries 4. Douglas J. Moo – Translation in New Testament Commentaries 5. Douglas S. Huffman – Historical Competence of New Testament Commentaries 6. Craig A. Evans – The Historical Jesus and New Testament Commentaries Part II: Commentaries and the Hermeneutical Task 7. Richard S. Hess – The Use of the Old Testament in New Testament Commentaries 8. D. A. Carson – The Hermeneutical Competence of New Testament Commentaries 9. Daniel I. Block – Who do Commentators say “the Lord” is? The Scandalous Rock of Romans 10:13 10. David W. Pao – The Ethical Relevance of New Testament Commentaries: On the Reading of Romans 13:1-7 11. Robert W. Yarbrough – The Pastoral Relevance of Commentaries 12. Walter L. Liefeld – The Preaching Relevance of Commentaries 13. Scott M. Manetsch – (Re)constructing the Pastoral Office: Wolfgang Musculus’s Commentaries on 1 & 2 Corinthians Part III: Commentaries and theology 14. Kevin J. Vanhoozer – Theological Commentary and ‘The Voice from Heaven’: Exegesis, Ontology, and the Travail of Biblical Interpretation 15. Daniel J. Treier – Christology and Commentaries: Examining and Enhancing Theological Exegesis 16. Linda L. Belleville– Christology, the Pastoral Epistles and Commentaries Part IV: Commentaries on the Gospels, on the Epistles, and on Revelation 17. Darrell L. Bock – Commentaries on the Synoptic Gospels: Traditional Issues of Introduction 18. Stanley E. Porter – Commentaries on Romans 19. Scot McKnight ¬– Commentaries and James 20. Lois K. Fuller Dow – Commentaries on Revelation Part V: Commentaries and publishers 21. Daniel G. Reid – Commentaries and Commentators from a Publisher’s Perspective

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Book SynopsisThe methodology of New Testament textual criticism, the critical evaluation of readings, and the history and texts of early Christianity is the focus of the influential work of J. K. Elliott. Texts and Traditions offers eighteen essays in his honour. The essays, by colleagues and students from his long career, reflect Elliott's wide interest and impact. From questions of the purpose and practice of textual criticism, to detailed assessment of New Testament literature and the readings of its manuscripts, to provocative studies of the reception of Jesus and the New Testament in the second century, this volume will be of value to those studying the New Testament and Early Christianity.Trade Review"fitting tribute to the honoree’s scholarship (...) Elliott’s prodigious labors are everywhere manifest; nearly every contribution canvasses terrain already traversed by him—a fact that is in itself a tribute." – Juan Hernández Jr., Bethel University, in: Religious Studies Review 42/1 (2016) "The editors are to be congratulated in managing to bring together this fine collection of essays to honour their Doktorvater of colleague. The wide-ranging scope of essays and topics reflect the manifold interests of the honoree." – Tommy Wasserman, Ansgar Teologiske Høgskole, Kristiansand, in: Novum Testamentum 58 (2016) "These first-rate studies offered by reputable scholars comprise a must-read for scholars of the NT and early Christianity. All in all, this excellent volume is a welcome addition to the series New Testament Tools, Studies and Documents and a fitting tribute to a brilliant scholar." – Zachary J. Cole, University of Edinburgh, in: The Expository Times 126/8 (May 2015) "ein schöner Band... der [...] im Bereich der neutestamentlichen Textkritik deutliche Stärken gerade auch deswegen zeigt, weil er [...] sehr schön Stand und Perspektiven eines Faches spiegelt, zu dessen Entwicklung Keith Elliott in hohem Maße beigetragen hat (und weiter beiträgt). Dem Jubilar ist für diese schöne Festgabe nur zu gratulieren: Ad multos annos!" – Tobias Nicklas, Universität Regensburg, in: TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, 2015Table of ContentsMichael W. Holmes, When Criteria Conflict D. C. Parker, Variants and Variance Eldon Jay Epp, In the Beginning Was the New Testament Text, But Which Text? A Consideration of ‘Ausgangstext’ and ‘Initial Text’* Jenny Read-Heimerdinger, Eclecticism and the Book of Acts James A. Kelhoffer, Hapless Disciples and Exemplary Minor Characters in the Gospel of Mark: The Exhortation to Cross-bearing as both Encouragement and Warning James W. Voelz, The Characteristics of the Greek of St. Mark’s Gospel Tjitze Baarda, The Syro-Sinaitic Palimpsest and Ephraem Syrus in Luke 2:36-38 and 1:6 Peter Doble, Codex Bezae and Luke 3:22: A Contribution to Discussion Jeffrey Kloha, Elizabeth’s Magnificat (Luke 1:46) H. A. G. Houghton, A Flock of Synonyms? John 21:15-17 in Greek and Latin Tradition L. W. Hurtado, Textual Ambiguity and Textual Variants in Acts of the Apostles Holger Strutwolf, Urtext oder frühe Korruption? Einige Beispiele aus der Apostelgeschichte J. Lionel North, 1 Corinthians 8:6: From Confession to Paul to Creed to Paul Peter M. Head, Tychicus and the Colossian Christians: A Reconsideration of the Text of Colossians 4:8 David R. Cartlidge, How to Draw an Immaculate Conception: Protevangelium of James 11-12 in Early Christian Art Paul Foster, The Education of Jesus in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas Denise Rouger et Christian-B. Amphoux, Le projet littéraire d’Ignace d’Antioche dans sa Lettre aux Ephésiens William J. Elliott, How to Change a Continuous Text Manuscript into a Lectionary Text Bibliography J. K. Elliott

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Book SynopsisGospel scholarship has long recognized that Matthean Christology is a rich, multifaceted tapestry weaving multifold Old Testment figures together in the person of Jesus. It is somewhat strange, therefore, that scholarship has found little role for the figure of Isaac in the Gospel of Matthew. Employing Umberto Eco's theory of the Model Reader as a theoretical basis to ground the phenomenon of Matthean intertextuality, this work contends that when read rightly as a coherent narrative in its first-century setting, with proper attention to both biblical texts and extrabiblical traditions about Isaac, the Gospel of Matthew evinces a significant Isaac typology in service of presenting Jesus as new temple and decisive sacrifice.Trade Review"In this thorough study, Huizenga provides compelling and fruitful insight into the Matthean presentation of Jesus (...) this is an important contribution to scholarship on Matthew and biblical intertextuality, of interest and value to scholars and students at or above graduate level." – Jessiah Nickel, University of St Andrews, in: Religious Studies Review 41/3 (2015)

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Book SynopsisIn God, Grace, and Righteousness in Wisdom of Solomon and Paul's Letter to the Romans, Jonathan A. Linebaugh places the Wisdom of Solomon and the Letter to the Romans in conversation. Both texts discuss the relationship of Jew and Gentile, the meaning of God's grace and righteousness, and offer readings of Israel's scripture. These shared themes provide talking-points, initiating a dialogue on anthropology, soteriology, and hermeneutics. By listening in on this conversation, Linebaugh demonstrates that while these texts have much in common, the theologies they articulate are ultimately incommensurable because they think from different events - Wisdom from the pre-creational order crafted by Sophia and exemplified in the Exodus; Paul from the incongruous gift of Christ which justifies the ungodly.Trade Review"a deeply illuminating comparison of the theologies and hermeneutical practices of the two texts, highlighting especially their respective notions of divine justice, gift giving, and scriptural interpretation. [...] The depth and coverage of this book is impressive. It should be read widely by scholars interested in Paul and Judaism." – John K. Goodrich, Moody Bible Institute, in: Religious Studies Review 41/2 (June 2015)Table of Contents1. A Contextual Conversation Part I: Wisdom of Solomon 2. Reading the World Rationally from End to Beginning: Wisdom 1-6 3. Wisdom’s Place in Wisdom’s Theology: 6.1-10.21 4. ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’: History and the Divine Economy in Wisdom 10.15-19.22 5. A Rational Reading, in Retrospect Part II: Wisdom and Romans in Conversation 6. Announcing the Human: Israel Against and As the Ungodly in Wisdom 13-15 and Romans 1.18-2.11 7. Soteriological Semantics: Righteousness and Grace in Wisdom and Romans 8. With the Grain of the Universe: History and Hermeneutics in Wisdom 10-19 and Romans 9-11 9. Concluding the Conversation

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Book SynopsisThe Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis provides a thoroughly up-to-date assessment of every major aspect of New Testament textual criticism. The twenty-four essays in the volume, all written by internationally acknowledged experts in the field, cover every major aspect of the discipline, discussing the advances that have been made since the mid twentieth century. With full and informative bibliographies, these contributions will be essential reading for anyone interested in moving beyond the standard handbooks in order to see where the discipline now stands, a vade mecum for all students and text-critical scholars for a generation to come.Trade ReviewFor students interested in NT textual criticism, there is no better volume for understanding the modern state of the study of this discipline.' Nijay K. Gupta, George Fox Evangelical Seminary, Religious Studies Review • VOLUME 41 • NUMBER 3 • SEPTEMBER 2015 'I have enjoyed dipping into it so far and congratulate the editors and the other contributors on this achievement. If you want to know the state of the question on any of the following topics then this is the place to look.' Peter Head, http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.nl/2012/12/the-text-of-new-testament-in.html This book is one of the most important books on textual criticism that has been published in years. ... The esteemed editors, Michael W. Holmes and Bart D. Ehrman, are to be congratulated once again for putting together a fine volume, in a fine series, published by a leading publisher in the field. Indeed, this book deserves a spot on the shelf of every New Testament scholar. Brice C. Jones, http://thequaternion.blogspot.ca/2013/03/book-review-text-of-new-testament-in.htmlTable of Contents1. The Papyrus Manuscripts of the New Testament Eldon Jay Epp 2. The Majuscule Manuscripts of the New Testament David C. Parker 3. The Greek Minuscules of the New Testament Barbara Aland and Klaus Wachtel 4. The Greek Lectionaries of the New Testament Carroll Osburn 5. The Diatessaron of Tatian Ulrich B. Schmid 6. The Syriac Versions of the New Testament Peter J. Williams 7. The Latin Version of the New Testament Philip Burton 8. The Coptic Versions of the New Testament Christian Askeland 9. The Ethiopic Version of the New Testament Rochus Zuurmond revised by Curt Niccum 10. The Armenian Version of the New Testament S. Peter Cowe 11. The Georgian Version of the New Testament Jeff W. Childers 12. The Gothic Version of the New Testament Carla Falluomini 13. The Use of the Greek Fathers for New Testament Textual Criticism Gordon D. Fee and Roderic L. Mullen 14. The Use of the Latin Fathers for New Testament Textual Criticism H.A.G. Houghton 15. The Use of the Syriac Fathers for New Testament Textual Criticism Sebastian Brock 16. Additional Greek Witnesses to the New Testament (Ostraca, Amulets, Inscriptions and other sources) Peter M. Head 17. Scribal Tendencies in the Transmission of the Text of the New Testament James R. Royse 18. The Social History of Early Christian Scribes Kim Haines-Eitzen 19. Analyzing and Categorizing New Testament Greek Manuscripts Thomas C. Geer, Jr. revised by Jean-François Racine 20. Textual Clusters: Their Past and Future in New Testament Textual Criticism Eldon Jay Epp 21. Criteria For Evaluating Readings in New Testament Textual Criticism Tommy Wasserman 22. Conjectural Emendation and the Text of the New Testament Jan Krans 23. From “Original Text” to “Initial Text”: the Traditional Goal of New Testament Textual Criticism in Contemporary Discussion Michael W. Holmes 24. Modern Critical Editions and Apparatuses of the Greek New Testament Juan Hernández Jr. 25. The Majority Text Theory: History, Methods, and Critique Daniel B. Wallace 26. Thoroughgoing Eclecticism in New Testament Textual Criticism J. Keith Elliott 27. Reasoned Eclecticism in New Testament Textual Criticism Michael W. Holmes 28. The Text as Window: New Testament Manuscripts and the Social History of Early Christianity Bart D. Ehrman

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Book SynopsisThe collection of essays focuses on the twin areas of research undertaken by Prof. Michael W. Holmes. These are the sub-disciplines of textual criticism and the study of the Apostolic Fathers. The first part of the volume on textual criticism focuses on issues of method, the praxis of editing and collating texts, and discussions pertaining to individual variants. The second part of the volume assembles essays on the Apostolic Fathers. There is a particular focus on the person and writings of Polycarp, since this is the area of research where Prof. Holmes has worked most intensively.Table of ContentsForeword: Bart D. Ehrman Introduction: Daniel M. Gurtner, Juan Hernández Jr., Paul Foster Part 1 - Text Criticism: 1. Eldon Jay Epp, “The Late Constantin Tischendorf and Codex Sinaiticus: New Testament Textual Criticism without Them–An Exercise in Erasure History.” 2. J. K. Elliott, “Patristic Evidence in the Apparatus Criticus of a Greek New Testament.” 3. Juan Hernández Jr. “Nestle-Aland 28 and the Revision of the Apocalypse’s Textual History.” 4. Jean-François Racine, “The Edition of the Greek New Testament: A Plea and a Challenge.” 5. Amy S. Anderson, “Codex 2193 and Family 1 in Mark.” 6. Daniel M. Gurtner, “Water and Blood and Matthew 27:49: A Johannine Reading in the Matthean Passion Narrative?” 7. Christina M. Kreinecker, “Of Fish and Men: Comparative, Text-Critical and Papyrological Remarks on Matt. 13:47–50 and the GTh 8.” 8. Daniel B. Wallace, “The Son’s Ignorance in Matthew 24.36: An Exercise in Textual and Redaction Criticism.” 9. Larry W. Hurtado, “A Fresh Analysis of P.Oxyrhynchus 1228 (P22) as Artifact.” 10. Chuck E. Hill, “Rightly Dividing the Word: Uncovering an Early Template for Textual Division in John’s Gospel.” 11. Roderic L. Mullen, “Asterius ‘the Sophist’ of Cappadocia: Citations from the Gospel of John as attested in the Theological Fragments.” 12. James R. Royse, “A Text-Critical Examination of the Johannine Variation.” 13. David C. Parker, Klaus Wachtel, Bruce Morrill and Ulrich Schmid, “The Selection of Greek Manuscripts to be Included in the International Greek New Testament Project’s Edition of John in the Editio Critica Maior.” 14. H.A.G. Houghton, “A Longer Text of Paul: Romans to Galatians in Codex Wernigerodensis (VL 58).” 15. Tommy Wasserman, “A Short Textual Commentary on Galatians.” 16. Christopher M. Tuckett, “The Text of Galatians 4:25a.” 17. Dirk Jongkind, “On the Marcionite Prologues to the Letters of Paul.” Part 2 - Early Christianity: 18. Paul Foster, “Polycarp in the Writings of Ignatius.” 19. Paul Hartog, “The Devil’s in the Details: The Apocalyptic ‘Adversary’ in the Martyrdom of Polycarp and the Martyrs of Lyons.” 20. James Carleton Paget, “The Old Testament in the Apostolic Fathers.” 21. Peter M. Head, “‘Witnesses between you and us’: The Role of the Letter-Carriers in 1 Clement.” 22. Clayton N. Jefford, “Defining Exceptions in the Didache.” 23. Harry O. Maier, “Space, Body, and Church in Ignatius of Antioch: Toward a Spatial Treatment.” 24. Tobias Nicklas, “Living as a ‘Christian’: Christian Ethos According to the Writings of Ignatius of Antioch.” 25. Wilhelm Pratscher, “Scripture and Christology in the Preaching of Peter (Kerygma Petri).” 26. Joseph Verheyden, “On ‘Rotten Stones’ and a Couple of Other Marginalia in the Shepherd of Hermas.” 27. Holger Strutwolf, “Anima naturaliter Christiana – Beobachtungen zum philosophischen und theologischen Hintergrund der Seelenlehre Tertullians.”

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Book SynopsisRather than viewing the Graeco-Roman world as the “background” against which early Christian texts should be read, Abraham J. Malherbe saw the ancient Mediterranean world as a rich ecology of diverse intellectual traditions that interacted within specific social contexts. These essays, spanning over fifty years, illustrate Malherbe’s appreciation of the complexities of this ecology and what is required to explore philological and conceptual connections between early Christian writers, especially Paul and Athenagoras, and their literary counterparts who participated in the religious and philosophical discourse of the wider culture. Malherbe’s essays laid the groundwork for his magisterial commentary on the Thessalonian correspondence and launched the contemporary study of Hellenistic moral philosophy and early Christianity.Trade ReviewThe convenience of having so many of Malherbe’s key essays in one location, presumably on library (e)shelves at research universities and seminaries, will ensure that his rich work continues to get the scholarly attention it so deserves.' Richard S. Ascough, School of Religion, Queen’s University, Religious Studies Review • VOLUME 41 • NUMBER 3 • SEPTEMBER 2015 ... a monument to Abraham J. Malherbe’s scholarship and the substantial advance it constitutes in the scholarly understanding of, primarily, the apostle Paul and his heirs in their cultural, Graeco-Roman environment. There is no doubt that this work in its new presentation will be a κτῆμα ἐς αἰεί. And it will also be of special interest to readers of this journal who are looking for insights into the classical world'. Troels Engberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.02.29 'Abe Malherbe, dieser kluge und vielgewanderter Odysseus, der "vieler Menschen Städte gesehn und Sitte gelernt hat", ist 2012 zur Ruhe gekommen, aber die beiden postum erschienenen Bände setzen ihm ein würdiges Denkmal. Die Herausgeber um Carl Holladay verdienen dafür großen Dank.' Thomas Schmeller, Biblische Zeitschrift 59' (2015) '... testament to the enduring value of Malherbe's scholarship [...] a fitting tribute to a career of world-leading research and publication. The editors of these volumes are to be commended for their careful work.' Paul Foster, University of Edinburgh, The Expository Times' 127(2)

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Book SynopsisIn Public Reading in Early Christianity: Lectors, Manuscripts, and Sound in the Oral Delivery of John 1-4 Dan Nässelqvist investigates the oral delivery of New Testament writings in early Christian communities of the first two centuries C.E. He examines the role of lectors and public reading in the Greek and Roman world as well as in early Christianity. Nässelqvist introduces a method of sound analysis, which utilizes the correspondence between composition and delivery in ancient literary writings to retrieve information about oral delivery from the sound structures of the text being read aloud. Finally he applies the method of sound analysis to John 1–4 and presents the implications for our understanding of public reading and the Gospel of John.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Pragmatics of Reading 3. Lectors in Early Christian Communities 4. A Method of Sound Analysis 5. John 1 – Introducing Jesus 6. John 2 – Jesus in Action 7. John 3 – Jesus in Discourse 8. John 4 – Jesus in Samaria 9. Conclusions and Implications

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Book SynopsisMany assume the book of Revelation is merely an “anti-imperial” attack on the Roman Empire. Yet, Shane J. Wood argues this conclusion over-exaggerates Rome’s significance and, thus, misses Revelation’s true target—the construction of the alter-empire through the destruction of the preeminent adversary: Satan. Applying insights from Postcolonial criticism and 'Examinations of Dominance,' this monograph challenges trajectories of New Testament Empire Studies by developing an Alter-Imperial paradigm that appreciates the complexities between the sovereign(s) and subject(s) of a society—beyond simply rebellion or acquiescence. Shane J. Wood analyses Roman propaganda, Jewish interaction with the Flavians, and Domitianic persecution to interpret Satan's release (Rev 20:1-10) as the climax of God's triumphal procession. Thus, Rome provides the imagery; Eden provides the target.

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Book SynopsisBodmer Papyri, Scribal Culture, and Textual Transmission presents a collection of Gordon Fee’s seminal works on New Testament textual criticism. His meticulous and thorough examination of New Testament papyrus Bodmer P66 (1968) insightfully describes its textual character and significant relationship to P75 and other early manuscripts. P66 and P75, among our most important and earliest papyri, were published only a half-dozen years before Fee’s volume, which has been heavily used and influential ever since. Prominent is his discovery of scribal activity in P66 that tended to correct its text toward the Byzantine. Fee’s ten successive, often quoted articles contribute substantially to our understanding of textual transmission and text-critical methodology, with an emphasis also on patristic citations. Completed with ample bibliographical resources, this volume is an indispensable resource for future research. Distinguished book reviewers wrote about Fee (1968): “full scale study” (Kilpatrick); “definitive analysis” (Metzger); “a most valuable work, ... which greatly advances the discipline of textual criticism in knowledge and method” (Birdsall).

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, Paul Robertson re-describes the form of the apostle Paul’s letters in a manner that facilitates transparent, empirical comparison with texts not typically treated by biblical scholars. Paul’s letters are best described by a set of literary characteristics shared by certain Greco-Roman texts, particularly those of Epictetus and Philodemus. Paul Robertson theorizes a new taxonomy of Greco-Roman literature that groups Paul’s letters together with certain Greco-Roman, ethical-philosophical texts written at a roughly contemporary time in the ancient Mediterranean. This particular grouping, termed a socio-literary sphere, is defined by the shared form, content, and social purpose of its constituent texts, as well as certain general similarities between their texts’ authors.Trade Review"This monograph asks important questions about the relations between a text's form, content, and social purpose. It points scholarship into a direction of observing how people and their texts form groups based on shared claims." Svetlana Knobnya, The Journal of the New Testament Booklist 2017, Volume 39.5, August 2017 "Ultimately, Robertson’s astute analysis of his collection of relevant data contributes a significant component to the task of understanding the Pauline letters in their literary context, and his emphasis on socio-literary spheres helps advance the discussion beyond polarizing binary approaches that do not adequately account for the complexities of comparing ancient literature. Paul’s Letters and Contemporary Greco-Roman Literature is aimed particularly at scholars studying the literary examination of Paul’s letters in their ancient literary context, and it deserves engagement in future endeavors in the field." Eric Covington, Universtity of St Andrews, Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies (December 2016)Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Paul, Paul’s Letters, and Contemporary Greco-Roman Literature of the Ancient Mediterranean My Approach: Textual Characteristics, Comparanda, and Socio-Literary Spheres Grounding the Present Study: Literary Criteria, and Specific versus Abstract Content Scholarship Characterizing Paul and Paul’s Letters Scholarship Characterizing the Broader Greco-Roman Literary Landscape Ancient Mediterranean Comparanda: Authors and Texts 2 Rethinking Paul and Paul’s Letters: Paul, Epictetus, and Philodemus in Context A Brief Introduction to Epictetus and Philodemus Textual Analysis and Comparison Social Location: Paul, Philodemus, and Epictetus 3 How Do We Compare Literature? Re-Classifying Paul’s Letters in a Socio-Literary Sphere An Introduction to Genre and Taxonomy Genre, Taxonomy, and Modern Literary Theory The Theoretical Turn I: Social Purpose The Theoretical Turn II: Linguistic Anthropology, Metadiscursivity, and Metapragmatics 4 An Overview of the Data: Annotated Literary Criteria in Paul, Epictetus, Philodemus, and Other Pauline Comparanda The Approach The Criteria Table of Contents for Literary Criteria General Comments An Introduction to the Data Sets The Data: A Brief Discussion Control Documents: Aelius Aristides’ Panathenaic Oration, the Damascus Document, and Other Pauline Comparanda 5 Socio-Historical Implications of Textual Comparison: The Education and Lives of Paul, Epictetus, and Philodemu Paul’s Letters, Literacy, and Education Broader Implications: Education and Social Location A Few Final Structural, Textual, and Abstract Considerations Conclusion: Socio-Literary Spheres and Literary Classification in Biblical and Classical Studies Review of Conclusions Further Thoughts and Future Study Appendix Graphical Analysis: Paul’s Letters and Comparanda Distilled Data: Literary Sphere and Other Comparanda Specific Textual Data: Paul, Epictetus, and Philodemus Bibliography Index of Terms Index of Ancient Authors and Texts

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Book SynopsisA more nuanced view of the Fourth Gospel’s media nature suggests a new and promising paradigm for assessing expansive and embedded uses of scripture in this work. The majority of studies exploring the Fourth Evangelist’s use of scripture to date have approached the Fourth Gospel as the product of a highly gifted writer, who carefully interweaves various elements and figures from scripture into the canvas of his completed document. The present study attempts to calibrate a literary approach to the Fourth Gospel’s use of scripture with an appreciation for oral poetic influences, whereby an orally-situated composer’s use of traditional references and compositional strategy could be of one and the same piece. Most importantly, pre-formed story-patterns—thick with referential meaning—were used in the construction of new works. The present study makes the case that the Fourth Evangelist has patterned his story of Jesus after a retelling of the story of Adam & Israel in two interrelated ways: first in the prologue, and then in the body of the Gospel as a whole.

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Book SynopsisIn The Language and Literature of the New Testament, a team of international scholars assembles to honour the academic career of New Testament scholar Stanley E. Porter. Over the years Porter has distinguished himself in a wide range of sub-disciplines within New Testament Studies. The contents of this book represent these diverse scholarly interests, ranging from canon and textual criticism to linguistics, other interpretive methodologies, Jesus and the Gospels, and Pauline studies.Trade Review"In all, this volume provides a stimulating variety of contributions in many areas of NT study, and as such constitutes a fitting tribute to a scholar whose own influential contribution to the field has truly ranged far and wide." - Simon Crisp, University of Birmingham, U.K. "As a voluminous collection of essays covering many areas of NT studies, this volume is highly recommended for all biblical studies research libraries." - D. Estes, South University, in: Religious Studies Review Volume 45, Number 3, September 2019.

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Book SynopsisIn Family 13 in Saint John’s Gospel, Jac Perrin innovatively applies phylogenetic software to shed new light on Family 13 membership. To date, the relocation of the Pericope Adulterae from its traditional location in John 7:53 has been the sole criterion of Family 13 filiality. This book demonstrates the inadequacy of this criterion, and proposes new criteria in its stead. Nineteen potential Family 13 witnesses are analyzed by means of a sampling process developed by David Parker, identifying eight witnesses inappropriately nominated as Family 13 members. This analysis is corroborated by a complete computer assisted collation of all variant readings in all known Family 13 witnesses. Lastly, the volume offers a comprehensive stemma representing the entire Johannine corpus of ten confirmed Family witnesses in constellation.Trade Review'This study is ground-breaking, and it furthers the understanding of the key features of this important family of New Testament minuscule manuscripts.' - Paul Foster, in: The Expository Times 2019

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Book SynopsisThis study offers the first sustained examination of the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM), a computerized method being used to edit the most widely-used editions of the Greek New Testament. Part one addresses the CBGM’s history and reception before providing a fresh statement of its principles and procedures. Parts two and three consider the method’s ability to recover the initial text and to delineate its history. A new portion of the global stemma is presented for the first time and important conclusions are drawn about the nature of the initial text, scribal habits, and the origins of the Byzantine text. A final chapter suggests improvements and highlights limitations. Overall, the CBGM is positively assessed but not without important criticisms and cautions.Trade ReviewFew could have analysed the Coherence Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) with as much clarity, precision and with as Peter Gurry. (...) Gurry's book contributes a number of important critical perspectives ... [it] is important because it reminds us that the results of the CBGM are determined by editorial choice and that textual criticism is not a formula to be solved, but a craft to be plied. Garrick Allen, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2019 A landmark study of the CBGM, no NT scholar can afford to be without this clear, concise, critical, and courteous book. Peter R. Rodgers, The Catholic Biblical Review, 2019Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction  1 Rationale  2 Scope  3 A Note on Terms and Percentages  4 Preview of the Argument 1 The History and Reception of the CBGM  1 History of the CBGM  2 Reception of the CBGM  3 Conclusion 2 The CBGM in Theory and Practice  1 Understanding the CBGM  2 Applying the CBGM to the Catholic Epistles  3 Conclusion 3 Recovering the Initial Text  1 Defining the Initial Text  2 The CBGM as a Meta-Method  3 Using Coherence to Detect Coincidental Agreement  4 Conclusion 4 Scribal Tendencies in James  1 Method  2 Results  3 Methodological Reflections  4 Conclusion 5 A Historical Test: The Harklean Group in the CBGM  1 The CBGM and Historical Reconstruction  2 The Harklean Group and the Byzantine Text  3 Implications  4 Conclusion 6 The Selection of Variants in the CBGM  1 Previous Study  2 The CBGM’s Basic Principle  3 Specific Cases  4 Conclusion 7 Limitations and Improvements  1 Limitations  2 Suggested Improvements  3 Conclusion Summary and Conclusion Appendix A: Changes in NA/UBS/ECM Appendix B: Harklean Readings in 1 John Appendix C: Orthographica in James Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Greek New Testament Manuscripts from Albania Didier Lafleur and Luc Brogly explore the riches of a unique collection of twenty-one Byzantine artefacts, among which the world-famous Beratinus 1 and Beratinus 2, both included by UNESCO in the Memory of the World Register. First described at the end of the 19th century by Anthimos Alexoudis, then revealed to Western scholarship by Pierre Batiffol, yet this collection has remained unknown to textual critics and no major analysis of it has been performed in over a century. Based on a fresh autopsy of the documents, the book describes the artefacts physically and analyses textual features and variant readings of each. This monograph will be of vital interest to any scholar or advanced student in the fields of Greek New Testament textual criticism and codicology.Trade ReviewThis lavish and important volume is a boon for New testament critics …. In particular, text critics will be indebted to Lafleur and Brogly for their painstaking and highly valuable work. This will be a seminal and central work on this collection for decades to come. Paul Foster, The Expository Times, 2019 Lafleur's work will be a requirement for any future work on these witnesses, and on other Greek NEW Testament manuscripts in Albania. We thank him and his assistant for their dogged patience and skilful presentation of their resultant chapters. And we also thank Brill for publishing this handsome book to add to our growing sets of their indispensable text-critical tools. Keith Elliott, Novum Testamentum, 2019 This work will be of great importance for textual scholars and modern historians. It is comprehensive, detailes, and as such makes a lasting contribution to the field. Sean Adams, The New Testament Booklist, 2019 À n’en pas douter, ce volume remarquable par sa rigueur et l’exploitation de nombreuses sources difficiles d’accès marque une étape importante dans la redécouverte des manuscrits grecs d’Albanie. Christophe Guignard, Revue des Sciences Religieuses, 2019

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Book SynopsisIn Speech-in-Character, Diatribe, and Romans 3:1-9, Justin King argues that the rhetorical skill of speech-in-character (prosopopoiia, sermocinatio, conformatio) offers a methodologically sound foundation for understanding the script of Paul’s imaginary dialogue with an interlocutor in Romans 3:1-9. King focuses on speech-in-character’s stable criterion that attributed speech should be appropriate to the characterization of the speaker. Here, speech-in-character helps to inform which voice in the dialogue speaks which lines, and the general goals of diatribe help shape how an “appropriate” understanding of the script is best interpreted. King’s analyses of speech-in-character, diatribe, and Romans, therefore, make independent contributions while simultaneously working together to advance scholarship on a much debated passage in one of history’s most important texts.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations and Tables 1 Introduction  Staging the Project  Methodology  Significance  An Outline: A Preview to the Project Part 1: Speech-in-Character Introduction to Part 1 2 Speech-in-Character in the Rhetorical Handbooks  Pseudo-Cicero: Rhetorica ad Herennium  Quintilian: Institutio Oratoria  Summary: Ad Herennium and Quintilian on Speech-in-Character 3 Speech-in-Character in the Progymnasmata  Theon: Προγυμνάσματα  [Hermogenes]: Προγυμνάσματα  Summary: Theon and [Hermogenes] on Speech-in-Character 4 Speech-in-Character: A Synthesis  Core Conventions of Speech-in-Character  Unique Features of Speech-in-Character 5 Examples of Speech-in-Character in Paul  Examples of Speech-in-Character in Paul  Conclusion Part 2: Diatribe Introduction to Part 2 6 Portrayals of Diatribe  Conclusion 7 Examples of Diatribal Dialogue  Introduction  Dialogue and Attributed Speech in Primary Sources for Diatribe  Conclusions Part 3: Romans 3:1–9 Introduction to Part 3 8 Traditional Readings of the Dialogue in Rom 3:1–9 and Its Role in the Letter  Pre-Bultmannian Readings of Romans 3:1–9  Diatribal Readings that Affirm the Traditional Script of Romans 3:1–9  Preliminary Conclusions 9 Rescriptive Readings of the Dialogue in Romans 3:1–9 and Its Role in the Letter  Non-Diatribal Critique of Traditional Readings  Rescriptive Readings of the Dialogue of Romans 3:1–9  Preliminary Conclusions 10 Romans 1–2: The Ethnically Inclusive and Impartial Gospel and the Characterization of the Interlocutor  Romans 1:1–12  Romans 1:13–15  Romans 1:16–17  Romans 1:18–32  Romans 2  Romans 2:1–11  Romans 2:12–16  Romans 2:17–29 11 Romans 3:1–9 and the Argument of Romans  Romans 3:1–9  Romans 3:1–9 and the Remainder of Romans  Conclusion 12 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the various paraphrastic techniques employed by Nonnus of Panopolis (5th century AD) for his poetic version of the Gospel of John. The authors look at Nonnus’ Paraphrase, the only extant poetic Greek paraphrase of the New Testament, in the light of ancient rhetorical theory while also exploring its multi-faceted relationship with poetic tradition and the theological debates of its era. The study shows how interpretation, cardinal both in ancient literary criticism and in theology, is exploited in a poem that is exegetical both from a philological and a Christian point of view and adheres, at the same time, to the literary principles of Hellenistic times and late antiquity.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors I Introduction  Laura Franco  A An Evanescent Figure  B Dates and Chronology  C The Dionysiaca  D The Paraphrase  E Nonnus’ Influence: A Brief Overview  F Nonnus’ Paraphrastic Technique: Rhetorical Tradition and Poetic Creativity  G Aims of the Present Study II The Rhetorical Background to the Paraphrase in the Light of Ancient Rhetorical Treatises  Claudia Greco, except for B.1.a.iii (Claudia Greco, Maria Ypsilanti)  A Poetry and Rhetoric  B Ancient Rhetorical Treatises and Paraphrastic Technique  C Paraphrase as a School Exercise. The Chreia. III Non-amplificatory Paraphrase  Introductory Essay: Laura Franco  A Literal Paraphrasis   Laura Franco, Maria Ypsilanti  B Abbreviations and Conflations   Laura Franco, Maria Ypsilanti  C Sequence and Transpositions   Laura Franco IV Amplificatio  Introductory Essay: Laura Franco  A Periphrasis   Maria Ypsilanti  B Synonymic Amplificatio and Verbal / Adjectival Accumulation   Introductory Essay: Laura Franco  C Explanations   Maria Ypsilanti, Laura Franco  D Imagery with Theological Significance   Introductory Essay: Maria Ypsilanti  E “Theatrical” Elements: Impressive Visualisation, Description of Scenery, Effects of Sound   Introductory Essay: Maria Ypsilanti  F Handling of Speech (Direct / Indirect / Dialogue)   Introductory Essay: Maria Ypsilanti  G Character Sketching: Between Theatricality, Exegesis and Ethopoea   Introductory Essay: Maria Ypsilanti  H Interpretatio   Introductory Essay: Laura Franco V Conclusions  Maria Ypsilanti Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAnatomies of the Gospels and Beyond is an edited volume structured around essays that focus on one of the four canonical Gospels (and Acts) and/or theoretical issues involved in literary readings of New Testament narrative. The volume is intended to honor the legacy of R. Alan Culpepper, Emeritus Professor and Former Dean at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology. The title of the volume (which alludes to the title of Culpepper’s ground-breaking monograph, Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel) and the breadth of the essays are apt reflections of his research interests over his academic career of over forty years. The twenty-six contributors are internationally recognized experts in New Testament studies; thus, the essays represent a snapshot of current research.Table of ContentsList of Contributors R. Alan Culpepper: Selected Publications and Presentations Prologue Introduction  Mikeal C. Parsons, Elizabeth Struthers Malbon and Paul N. Anderson R. Alan Culpepper: A Tribute  Mikeal C. Parsons Gospel of Matthew 1 From Isaiah 40:3 to Matthew 3:3—Intertextuality and Traditionsgeschichte  M. Eugene Boring 2 Turning the Other Cheek to a Perpetrator: Renunciation or Upholding of Justice?  Lidija Novakovic 3 Oeuvre Mouvante: The Gospels as Living Traditions  Edwin K. Broadhead 4 So What’s the Story? The Role of Plot in Reading Matthew’s Gospel  David L. Barr 5 Jesus was a Refugee: Reception of Matthew 2:13–23  Janice Capel Anderson Gospel of Mark 6 Mark: John’s Photographic Negative  C. Clifton Black 7 Placing Bethsaida: From Mark to Matthew and Luke to John  Elizabeth Struthers Malbon 8 Teaching the Gospel of Mark in Rome  Robert M. Fowler 9 From Markan Narrative in Print to Markan Narrative in Performance: A Paradigm Shift  David Rhoads 10 Do You not Yet Trust God’s Rule Breaking in on Earth? The Disciples in Mark  Joanna Dewey Gospel of Luke 11 Illuminating “Christ Among the Doctors” (Luke 2:41–52) in the Exegetical Tradition and Select Florentine Renaissance Paintings  Heidi J. Hornik and Mikeal C. Parsons 12 Disability and Dis-ease: Body, Restoration, and Ethics of Reading in Luke’s Gospel  John T. Carroll 13 The Parable of the Minas in Lukan Context: Jesus and Kingship, the Carnivalesque, and Intertextuality  Robert L. Brawley 14 Murmuring Sophists: Extratextual Elements in Luke’s Portrayal of Pharisees  John A. Darr 15 Breathing New Life into Narrative Criticism: Postclassical Narratology and the Gospel of Luke  Michal Beth Dinkler Gospel of John 16 Jesus, God of Old and Newcomer: Rhetorical Character Presentation in John 1–2  Kasper Bro Larsen 17 Stereotypes, In-Groups, and Out-Groups in the Gospel of John  Jan G. van der Watt 18 There Are No “Aporias”: Ancient Media Culture and the Problem of the Fourth Gospel’s Composition-History  Tom Thatcher 19 How Johannine Signs Signify (or Don’t)  Harold W. Attridge 20 The Fourth Gospel: A “Spiritual” or “Theological” Gospel  John Painter For Beyond the Gospels 21 The Children of God and the Son of God in the Johannine Gospel and Epistles  Stan Harstine 22 Fictive Kinship and Its Symbolism in the Literary Structures of 1 John  Dorothy A. Lee 23 Discovering Psalm 156 and Its Importance for Early Judaism and Christian Origins  James H. Charlesworth 24 Encounter, Dissonance, and Reflection in the Dialectical Development of Paul’s Theology  Paul N. Anderson 25 Sit and Listen; Go and Do: The Parables of the Good Samaritan and Prodigal Son in Howard Thurman’s Life and Thought  David B. Gowler Epilogue A Closing Tribute to R. Alan Culpepper  Gail R. O’Day Index of Modern Authors Index of Ancient Sources

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Book SynopsisDans cet ouvrage, Sara Schulthess discute l’état de la recherche sur les manuscrits arabes des lettres de Paul et offre une contribution innovante en éditant et analysant la Première lettre aux Corinthiens dans le Vaticanus Arabicus 13, un manuscrit du 9ème siècle. In this work, Sara Schulthess discusses the state of research on the Arabic manuscripts of the Letters of Paul and offers an innovative contribution by editing and analysing First Corinthians in the 9th century manuscript Vaticanus Arabicus 13.Table of ContentsRemerciements List of Figures 1 Introduction  1 Problématique et objectifs  2 Remarques épistémologiques PARTIE 1: Les manuscrits arabes du Nouveau Testament dans la recherche contemporaine 2 État de la recherche  1 Les premières éditions  2 Le 19e s. : d’une Vorlage latine à la complexité des nombreuses familles  3 Le début du 20e s. : une traduction préislamique ?  4 La contribution de Georg Graf (1944)  5 De Vööbus (1954) à Griffith (1983) : remise en question de l’existence préislamique de traductions  6 Les années 1990-2000 : séries d’articles  7 Hikmat Kashouh (2012) : une monographie attendue  8 Un nombre de publications croissant (2012-2017)  9 Les lettres de Paul, parent pauvre de la recherche 3 Du désintérêt à la redécouverte : analyse d’un phénomène scientifique  1 La critique textuelle du Nouveau Testament se détourne des manuscrits arabes  2 Un mépris aux racines « orientalistes » ?  3 Évolution de la critique textuelle du Nouveau Testament et reprise du champ  4 L’existence de traductions préislamiques, un point de vue minoritaire  5 Enjeux interculturels et interreligieux : Internet  6 Vers quelle recherche ? Hybridité/porosité entre les discours PARTIE 2: Les manuscrits arabes des lettres de Paul 4 Répertoire des manuscrits arabes des lettres de Paul  1 Introduction  2 Berlin, Staatsbibliothek  3 Beyrouth, Bibliothèque orientale  4 Bzommar, Bibliothèque du Couvent de Bzommar (Liban)  5 Caire, Franciscan Center of Christian Oriental Studies  6 Caire, Musée copte  7 Caire, Patriarcat copte catholique  8 Caire, Patriarcat copte orthodoxe  9 Caire, Bibliothèque du Monastère Mar Menas  10 Cambridge, University Library  11 Charfeh, Bibliothèque patriarcale du monastère syro-catholique de Charfeh  12 Copenhague, Det Kongelige Bibliothek  13 Damas, Bibliothèque du Patriarcat syrien orthodoxe à Homs  14 Deir al-Muḥarraq, Monastère copte  15 Diyarbakir, Eglise syriaque orthodoxe Meryem Ana  16 Dublin, Trinity College Library  17 Duluth, University of Minnesota, Kathryn A. Martin Library, The Ramseyer-Northern Bible Society Collection  18 Escorial, Real Biblioteca de San Lorenzo de El Escorial  19 Florence, R. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana  20 Göttingen, Staats – und Universitätsbibliothek  21 Groningen, Universiteitsbibliotheek  22 Halle, Archiv der Franckeschen Stiftungen  23 Hambourg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek  24 Jérusalem, Bibliothèque du Monastère grec au Saint-Sépulcre  25 Jérusalem, Bibliothèque du Monastère Saint-Marc  26 Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek  27 Leipzig Universitätsbibliothek  28 Londres, British Library  29 Londres, Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies  30 Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional  31 Manchester, John Rylands Library  32 Mardin, Bibliothèque de l’Archevêque chaldéen  33 Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana  34 Modène, Biblioteca Estense  35 Mor Mattay, Bibliothèque du Monastère syriaque orthodoxe  36 Mossul, Frères dominicains à Mossul  37 Naples, Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III  38 Oxford, Bodleian Library  39 Oxford, Queen’s College Library  40 Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France  41 Princeton, University Library  42 Saint-Pétersbourg, Bibliothèque nationale de Russie  43 Saint-Pétersbourg, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences  44 Sinaï, Monastère Sainte-Catherine  45 Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana  46 Venise, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana  47 Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek  48 Manuscrits mentionnés par Graf dont nous n’avons pas retrouvé la trace ou dont nous n’avons pu consulter le catalogue 5 Observations  1 Introduction  2 Bibliothèques  3 Dates  4 Contenu des manuscrits  5 Vorlagen selon Graf  6 Manuscrits karshounis et manuscrits bilingues  7 Matériel  8 Copistes et scriptoria  9 Conclusion PARTIE 3: La première lettre aux Corinthiens dans le Vat. Ar. 13 6 Introduction au Vat. Ar. 13  1 Introduction  2 État de la recherche sur le Vat. Ar. 13  3 Description du manuscrit Vat. Ar. 13 7 Édition de 1 Corinthiens dans le Vat. Ar. 13  1 Remarques introductives concernant l’édition et ses standards  2 Choix d’édition : texte diplomatique  3 Édition digitale  4 1 Corinthiens dans le Vat. Ar. 13 8 Commentaire et analyse de 1 Corinthiens dans le Vat. Ar. 13  1 Commentaire verset par verset  2 Moyen arabe  3 Affinités textuelles  4 Lexique  5 Conclusions 9 Identité(s) dans 1 Corinthiens dans le Vat. Ar. 13  1 Lire une traduction : enjeux  2 Qui sont les ḥunafāʾ dans 1 Corinthiens ?  3 Pistes conclusives Conclusion Bibliographie  1 Références du Répertoire (Chapitre 4)  2 Outils (Avec les Abréviations oour le Chapitre 8)  3 Littérature Secondaire Annexe

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Book SynopsisSortilege—the making of decisions by casting lots—was widely practiced in the Mediterranean world during the period known as late antiquity, between the third and eighth centuries CE. In My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity, AnneMarie Luijendijk and William Klingshirn have collected fourteen essays that examine late antique lot divination, especially but not exclusively through texts preserved in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac. Employing the overlapping perspectives of religious studies, classics, anthropology, economics, and history, contributors study a variety of topics, including the hermeneutics and operations of divinatory texts, the importance of diviners and their instruments, and the place of faith and doubt in the search for hidden order in a seemingly random world.Trade Review"The present volume with contributions from well-established scholars of the field is a timely addition to the scholarship of sortition in late antiquity and middle ages and a valuable instrument for further research." - Florin Filimon, University of Münster, in: The Byzantine Review 2019.009 "The volume offers several important correctives to prevailing scholarly biases about sortes, especially their relationship to late antique Christianity (...) the editors ought to be congratulated for producing an excellent volume that will certainly serve as an essential guide for future scholarship on late antique sortilege and its practitioners." - Joseph E. Sanzo, University of Warwick, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, September 2019 "En conclusion, ce volume collectif présente habilement les différentes facettes de la divination par le sort." - Fabio Spadini, in: Kernos 32, 2019 "This volume offers a necessary and helpful roadmap for the study of sortilege in late antiquity. (...) It compiles ancient lot texts and bibliography and addresses the subfield’s status quaestionis from various angles." - Carson Bay, in: Review of Biblical Literature 12, 2020Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 The Literature of Lot Divination  AnneMarie Luijendijk and William E. Klingshirn 2 The Instruments of Lot Divination  William E. Klingshirn 3 Fateful Spasms: Palmomancy and Late Antique Lot Divination  Salvatore Costanza 4 Hermēneiai in Manuscripts of John’s Gospel: an Aid to Bibliomancy  Kevin Wilkinson 5 Hermeneutics and Magic: a Unique Syriac Biblical Manuscript as an Oracle of Interpretation  Jeff W. Childers 6 Secondhand Homer  Michael Meerson 7 Sortes Biblicae Judaicae  Pieter W. van der Horst 8 The Sortes Barberinianae within the Tradition of Oracular Texts  Randall Stewart 9 Oxyrhynchus and Oracles in Late Antiquity  Alexander Kocar 10 Sortes, Scribality, and Syncretism: Ritual Experts and the Great Tradition in Byzantine Egypt  David Frankfurter 11 Sortilege between Divine Ordeals and “Secular” Justice: Aspects of Jurisdiction in (Ritual) Texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt  Franziska Naether 12 Freakonomika: Oracle as Economic Indicator in Roman Egypt  David M. Ratzan 13 “I Do Not Wish to Be Rich”: The ‘Barbarian’ Christian Tatian Responds to Sortes  Laura Salah Nasrallah 14 “Only Do Not Be of Two Minds”: Doubt in Christian Lot Divination  AnneMarie Luijendijk Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Paul and Scripture, an international group of scholars discuss a range of topics related to the Apostle Paul and his relationship(s) with Jewish Scripture. The essays represent a broad spectrum of viewpoints, with some devoted to methodological issues, others to general patterns in Paul’s uses of Scripture, and still others to specific letters or passages within the traditional Pauline canon (inclusive of the disputed letters). The end result is an overview of the various ways in which Paul the Apostle weaves into his writings the authority, content, and even wording of Jewish Scriptures.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations List of Contributors 1 Introduction to Paul and Scripture  Stanley E. Porter and Christopher D. Land Part 1: General Essays 2 Paul and His Use of Scripture: Further Considerations  Stanley E. Porter 3 Paul’s Use of νόμος: Torah, Law, or Custom?  Ryder A. Wishart 4 The Reception of 1 and 2 Maccabees in the Letters of Paul  Gerbern S. Oegema Part 2: Romans 5 Paul’s Use of Scripture in Romans  Colin G. Kruse 6 Obedience in Covenant and in Christ: Paul’s Theodicean Solution  Tom Holmén 7 The Centrality of Jewish Scripture in Paul’s Theology: Romans 3 as a Case in Point  Jey J. Kanagaraj Part 3: The Corinthian Letters 8 From the Perspective of the Writer or the Perspective of the Reader: Coming to Grips with a Starting Point for Analyzing the Use of Scripture in 1 Corinthians  H. H. Drake Williams, III 9 Paul’s View of Αδιάφορα in 1 Corinthians 8–10  Panayotis Coutsoumpos 10 Raised on the Third Day According to the Scriptures: Hosea 6:2 in Jewish Tradition  John Granger Cook 11 Paul on Apokatastasis: 1 Cor 15:24–28 and the Use of Scripture  Ilaria Ramelli 12 The Rhetoric of “Consolation” in 2 Corinthians 1:3–11/7:4–13 in the Context of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman Consolatory Literature  James R. Harrison 13 It’s Not Like Moses Veiled so that the Israelites Didn’t Stare: A Hypothesis Regarding Paul’s Understanding of Exodus 34  Christopher D. Land 14 The Centrality of Scripture in 2 Corinthians 8–9  Craig L. Blomberg Part 4: Other Pauline Letters 15 The Sinai-Mεσίτης Tradition in Galatians 3:19–20  Linda L. Belleville 16 The Use of Job 13:16 in Phil 1:19: Direct Quotation or Allusion?  Lau Chi Hing 17 Reception of the Old Testament in First Thessalonians and in Philippians?  Markus Öhler 18 The Pastoral Epistles and the Scriptures of Israel  Arland J. Hultgren Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors

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Book SynopsisThe last thirty years have witnessed increasing diversity in methodology and perspectives within biblical studies. One of the most dynamic and continually expanding contributions to this development is that of postcolonial studies, known for its fresh approaches as well as for its complex theoretical foundations. The present book aims at introducing both student and scholar to this emerging field. Part One discusses in a structured and pedagogical way the theoretical location of postcolonial biblical studies as well as its critique of and contributions to New Testament exegesis more specifically. Part Two presents five articles by scholars from Africa, Asia, and North America, illustrating the diversity of current postcolonial studies as applied to individual New Testament texts.

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Book SynopsisIn A Discourse Analysis of Galatians and the New Perspective on Paul, David I. Yoon outlines discourse analysis from the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics for analyzing Paul’s letter to the Galatians. From this analysis, he determines whether the context of situation better reflects the New Perspective on Paul, covenantal nomism, or a more traditional perspective, legalism. The first half of the book introduces the New Perspective on Paul and discourse analysis, followed by a detailed model of SFL discourse analysis with respect to register and context of situation. The second half is a discourse analysis of Galatians. This is the first monograph-length study to address the New Perspective on Paul from a linguistic approach, and will as such be of great interest to scholars of Pauline Studies, linguistics, and theology.Trade Review"Anyone employing discourse analysis in biblical studies should engage with this illuminating study" - Andrew Boakye, in: Journal for the Study of the New Testament 42:5, 2020Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Part 1: Theory 1 An Introduction to the New Perspective on Paul  1 A Brief Survey of the New Perspective and Covenantal Nomism  2 Covenantal Nomism and Legalism  3 Conclusion 2 A Definition and Survey of Discourse Analysis  1 The Development of Discourse Analysis in Linguistics  2 Discourse Analysis in New Testament Studies  3 Conclusion 3 Introduction to SFL Discourse Analysis with Reference to Register  1 An Overview of SFL Discourse Analysis  2 Register and Context of Situation  3 Three Contextual Components of Register  4 Conclusion Part 2: Analysis 4 Mode Analysis of Galatians  1 Cohesion  2 Thematization  3 Prominence  4 Conclusion  5 Outline of Galatians 5 Field Analysis of Galatians  1 Transitivity Network  2 Lexis  3 Conclusion  4 Excursus: The Meaning of ἔργα νόμου: A Response to Dunn Considering Lexical Semantics and Case Semantics  5 A Brief Overview of Lexical Semantics  6 Case Semantics of the Genitive  7 Analysis of ἔργα νόμου in the Pauline Corpus  8 Conclusion 6 Tenor Analysis of Galatians  1 Speech Functions  2 Social Roles  3 Conclusion 7 A Summary and a Contextual Configuration of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians Appendix 1: Thematization in Galatians Appendix 2: Transitivity Network in Galatians Appendix 3: Speech Functions in Galatians Bibliography Author Index Scripture Index

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Book SynopsisIn this commentary on the Egerton Gospel, Lorne R. Zelyck presents a fresh paleographical analysis and thorough reconstruction of the fragmentary text, which results in new readings and interpretations. Details surrounding the acquisition of the manuscript are presented for the first time, and various scholarly viewpoints on controversial topics, such as the date of composition and relationship to the canonical gospels, are addressed. This early apocryphal gospel (150-250 CE) provides traditional interpretations of the canonical gospels that are similar to those of other early Christian authors, and affirms Jesus’ continuity with the miracle-working prophets Moses and Elisha, his obedience to the Law, divinity, and violent rejection by Jewish opponents.Trade Review"Zelyck’s work provides much fresh primary research on the acquisition of the fragments, which had not been previously available. Moreover, he provides the strongest case for a later dating of these fragments and better reasons for viewing the text as influenced by the Fourth Gospel. As such this is a highly important contribution to scholarship on the Egerton Gospel and it will be consulted by all scholars working on this text for many decades to come." - Paul Foster, University of Edinburgh, in: Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 71.3 (2020).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1 Introduction  1 The Egerton Gospel (Egerton Papyrus 2 + Papyrus Köln VI 255)  2 The Fragments of the Egerton Gospel  3 The Plan of the Commentary  4 Previous Scholarship on the Relationship between the Egerton and Canonical Gospels  5 Method for Evaluating the Relationship between the Egerton and Canonical Gospels 2 The Acquisition and Publication of the Egerton Gospel Fragments  1 The Announcement  2 The Provenance of the Egerton Fragments  3 Sir Harold Idris Bell’s Papyrus Syndicate  4 The Deal  5 The Provenience of the Egerton Fragments  6 The Provenance of P. Köln VI 255  7 Other Fragments of the Egerton Gospel? 3 A Description of the Fragments  1 The Size of the Fragments  2 The Order of Fragments  3 The Hand  4 Other Features of the Text  5 The Date of the Manuscript  6 The Date of Composition 4 Transcription, Reconstruction, and Translation  1 Transcription: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 1 verso (↓) + P. Köln 255 verso (↓)  2 Transcription: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 1 recto (→) + P. Köln 255 recto (→)  3 Transcription: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 2 verso (↓)  4 Transcription: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 2 recto (→)  5 Transcription: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 3 verso (↓)  6 Transcription: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 3 recto (→)  7 Transcription: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 4 verso (↓)  8 Transcription: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 4 recto (→)  9 Reconstruction: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 1 verso (↓) + P. Köln 255 verso (↓)  10 Translation: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 1 verso (↓) + P. Köln 255 verso (↓)  11 Reconstruction: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 1 recto (→) + P. Köln 255 recto (→)  12 Translation: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 1 recto (→) + P. Köln 255 recto (→)  13 Reconstruction: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 2 verso (↓)  14 Translation: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 2 verso (↓)  15 Reconstruction: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 2 recto (→)  16 Translation: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 2 recto (→)  17 Reconstruction: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 3 verso (↓)  18 Reconstruction: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 3 recto (→)  19 Translation: P. Eg. 2 Fragment 3 recto (→) 5 A Confrontation with the Authorities (EG 1v.1–26 [P. Eg. 2, 1v.1–20 + P. Köln 255v.1–6<])  1 Text and Translation (EG 1v.1–26)  2 Analysis  3 Conclusion 6 An Attempt to Stone and Arrest Jesus (EG 1r.1–10 [P. Eg. 2, 1r.1–10])  1 Text and Translation (EG 1r.1–10)  2 Analysis  3 Conclusion 7 The Healing of a Leper (EG 1r.11–24 [P. Eg. 2, 1r.11–20 + P. Köln.255, 1r.1–7])  1 Text and Translation (EG 1r.11–24)  2 Analysis  3 Conclusion 8 Jesus’ Strange Question (EG 2v.1–5 [P. Eg. 2, 2v.1–5]) and the Miracle on the Jordan River (EG 2v.6–16 [P. Eg. 2, 2v.6–16])  1 Text and Translation (EG 2v.6–16)  2 Analysis  3 Synthesis (EG 2v.6–16)  4 Text and Translation (EG 2v.1–5)  5 Analysis (EG 2v.1–5)  6 Conclusion 9 The Question of Tribute (EG 2r.1–18 [P. Eg. 2, 2r.1–17<])  1 Text and Translation (EG 2r.1–18)  2 Analysis  3 Conclusion 10 An Unidentified Text (EG 3v.1–6 [P. Eg. 2, 3v.1–6])  1 Text and Analysis (EG 3v.1–6)  2 Conclusion 11 Another Attempt to Stone Jesus (EG 3r.1–6 [P. Eg. 2, 3r.1–6])  1 Text and Translation (EG 3r.1–6)  2 Analysis  3 Conclusion 12 Conclusion  1 The Relationship between the Egerton Gospel and the Canonical Gospels  2 Theological Profile of the Egerton Gospel  3 Location of the Egerton Gospel  4 Purpose of the Egerton Gospel Appendix 1: Word Statistics Appendix 2: Synoptic Charts of Parallel Passages Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn History of the Pauline Corpus in Texts, Transmissions, and Trajectories , Chris S. Stevens examines the Greek manuscripts of the Pauline texts from P46 to Claromontanus. Previous research is often hindered by the lack of a systematic analysis and an indelicate linguistic methodology. This book offers an entirely new analysis of the early life of the Pauline corpus. Departing from traditional approaches, this text-critical work is the first to use Systemic Functional Linguistics, which enables both the comparison and ranking of textual differences across multiple manuscripts. Furthermore, the analysis is synchronically oriented, so it is non-evaluative. The results indicate a highly uniform textual transmission during the early centuries. The systematic analysis challenges previous research regarding text types, Christological scribal alterations, and textual trajectories.Trade Review“The book makes a novel contribution to the discussion by providing a new vantage point from which to compare texts and a new approach for delineating variants.” – Garrick V. Allen, University of Glasgow, in: Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2022 44.5, August 2022.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures, Tables and Charts Abbreviations Introduction 1 New Testament Textual Criticism: History and Highlights  1 History of Textual Criticism  2 Textual Criticism during the Early Church  3 Textual Criticism after the Printing Press  4 Conclusion  Excursus: Original Text Form and the Goal of Textual Criticism 2 Contemporary Textual Criticism Methods for New Testament Studies  1 Majority Text  2 Single Text Theory  3 Byzantine Text Form  4 Eclecticism: Reasoned and Thoroughgoing  5 Stemmatics  6 Coherence-Based Genealogical Method  7 Conclusion of History and Methods 3 Method for Direct Evaluation of Textual Uniformity  1 Comparative Methods  2 Definition of a Unit of Variation  3 New Method of Textual Comparison  4 Procedure for the Comparison of Manuscripts: Counting and Numerical Majority 4 Summarized Results of the Textual Examination  1 Romans Summary  2 1 Corinthians Summary  3 2 Corinthians Summary  4 Galatians Summary  5 Ephesians Summary  6 Philippians Summary  7 Colossians Summary  8 1 Thessalonians Summary  9 2 Thessalonians Summary  10 1 Timothy Summary  11 2 Timothy Summary  12 Titus Summary  13 Philemon Summary  14 Conclusion 5 Textual Features Explored and Weighed  1 Surprising Scribal Skill  2 Spelling  3 Scribal Choices and Inconsistencies  4 Brevior Lectio vs. Verbose Additions  5 General Patterns  6 Summary of Highlighted Features  7 Sensible Results out of Nonsense  8 Weighted Conclusion  9 Conclusion 6 Application to Contemporary Research  1 Text Types and Textual Assessment  2 Textual Uniformity  3 Textual Agreement Rates of Other Ancient Texts  4 Textual Agreement Rates in Other Projects  5 P46 and Textual Agreement  6 Summary  7 The Aland’s Figures of Textual Agreement  8 Conclusion 7 Narrative Textual Criticism: Textual Variation Used for Sociohistorical Narratives  1 Background and Development of Narrative Textual Criticism  2 Benefits and Weaknesses of NTC  3 NTC Approach Popularized by Bart Ehrman  4 Ehrman versus the Evidence  5 Summary  6 Conclusion 8 Source and History of the Pauline Corpus  1 Before AD 200  2 Historical Consistency Rather Than Diversity Followed by Recension  3 When Does the Pauline Corpus Originate? Theories of Publication  4 Conclusion Conclusion Appendix 1: Textual Analysis of the Pauline Corpus  1 Pauline Corpus: Thirteen Letters  2 Romans: Commentary and Results  3 1 Corinthians: Textual Commentary and Results  4 2 Corinthians: Textual Commentary and Results  5 Galatians: Commentary and Results  6 Ephesians: Commentary and Results  7 Philippians: Commentary and Results  8 Colossians: Commentary and Results  9 1 Thessalonians: Commentary and Results  10 2 Thessalonians: Commentary and Results  11 1 Timothy: Commentary and Results  12 2 Timothy: Commentary and Results  13 Titus: Commentary and Results  14 Philemon: Commentary and Results  15 Statistical Conclusions of the Textual Comparison Appendix 2: Examination of Textual Differences for Christological Tendencies  1 Orthodox Base Position  2 Method of Christological Evaluation  3 Textual Differences Possibly Impacting Christology  4 Citations and Comments by Ehrman  5 Conclusion of Christology Data  6 Key Findings  7 Conclusion Bibliography Modern Author Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisIn this collection of thematically arranged essays on the Gospel according to Mark, the first part highlights its reception in early Christianity, its text form as an episodic narrative and its relation to contemporary genres. It recognizes Mark’s dependence on traditions from and about Jesus of Nazareth and the presupposed knowledge about the narrated locations in Galilee. The second part focuses on the discourse itself, presenting studies on style, use of metaphor, intertextuality, and strategies of persuasion. The third part treats the Christology, ethics and eschatology and the way in which the narrator gives meaning to Jesus’s death. The fourth part returns to the burning issue of what lies behind Mark and how we can study it, ending with a proposal to discuss the composition of the narrative within the framework of performance theory.Trade Review"Der Band bietet vielseitige Anregungen. Stets ist streng methodenbewusst unter genauer Beobachtung der wesentlichen Forschungsfragen beides zusammengehalten, der Blick auf die mögliche Erkenntnis vormarkinischer Traditionen und die Frage nach dem Markustext als Ganzem, wobei sich B. gegenüber allzu ausgefeilter Narratologie zurückhaltend zeigt. Man kann dem Verfasser nur gratulieren [...] " – Martin Meiser, Saarbrücken, Theologische Literaturzeitung 2022, Nr. 12, Spalte 1193–1196 "Die in diesem Band gesammelten zweiundzwanzig Beiträge dokumentieren, dass B. seit seiner Dissertation Nachfolge und Zukunftserwartung nach Markus. Eine methodenkritische Studie von 1984 der Markusforschung bis auf den heutigen Tag eng verbunden ist und sie im Laufe von dreienhalb Jahrzehnten wesentlich mit geprägt hat." - Manuel Vogel, Zeitschrift für Neues Testament 24: 47 (2021).Table of Contentsb>Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations Part 1 The Gospel according to Mark 1 The Gospel according to Mark 2 The Gospel of Mark as “Episodic Narrative” 3 The Gospel according to Mark: The Yardstick for Comparing the Gospels with Ancient Texts 4 Das Markusevangelium als traditionsgebundene Erzählung? Anfragen an die Markusforschung der achtziger Jahre 5 Mark and Galilee: Text World and Historical World 6 Galilee and Jerusalem: Rural Villages versus the Cultic City according to Mark’s Gospel 7 From Mark’s Son of God to Jesus of Nazareth—un cul-de-sac? Part 2 Discourse Studies on the Text of the Earliest Gospel 8 Alternation between Aorist, Historical Present and Imperfect: Aspects of Markan Narrative Style 9 Metaphor in Argument: The Beelzebul Controversy in the Gospel according to Mark 10 Incomprehension en route to Jerusalem (Mark 8:22–10:52) 11 Das Markusevangelium, Psalm 110,1 und 118,22 f.: Folgetext und Prätext 12 Das Wissen und Nicht-Wissen um die Zeit als Verhaltensregel: Eine textpragmatische Analyse der Endzeitrede in Markus 13 Part 3 On Markan Theology 13 Grundzüge markinischer Gottessohn-Christologie 14 Identity and Rules of Conduct in Mark: Following the Suffering, Expecting the Coming Son of Man 15 Narrating the Death of Jesus in Mark: The Utterances of the Main Character, Jesus 16 „Wie geschrieben ist“ und das Leiden des Christus: Die theologische Leistung des Markus Part 4 Before Mark? 17 Das Problem des Übergangs von mündlicher zu schriftlicher Überlieferung 18 Μνημονεύειν – Das „Sich-Erinnern“ in der urchristlichen Überlieferung: Die Betanienepisode (Mk 14,3–9/Joh 12,1–8) als Beispiel 19 Vormarkinische Logientradition: Parallelen in der urchristlichen Briefliteratur 20 Die Vorschriften des Mose im Markusevangelium: Erwägungen zur Komposition von Mk 7,9–13; 10,2–9 und 12,18–27 21 The Minor Prophets in Mark’s Gospel 22 Das Evangelium nach Markus: Verschlüsselte Performanz? Indices

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Book SynopsisIn the collection entitled Deciphering the Worlds of Hebrews Gabriella Gelardini gathers fifteen essays written in the last fifteen years, twelve of which are in English and three in German. Arranged in three parts (the world of, behind, and in front of Hebrews’s text), her articles deal with such topics as structure and intertext, sin and faith, atonement and cult, as well as space and resistance. She reads Hebrews no longer as the enigmatic and homeless outsider within the New Testament corpus, as the “Melchizedekian being without genealogy”; rather, she reads Hebrews as one whose origin has finally been rediscovered, namely in Second Temple Judaism.Trade Review“She [Gelardini] ably summarizes and engages with broader currents such as the linguistic turn or spatiality, with wider ancient contexts such as discussions of synagogue practice or Roman fides and brings these to bear in the detail of her exegetical or structural discussions of the text of Hebrews. While some details may not persuade […] her wider project of attending to the detail of what it means to locate Hebrews within Second Temple Judaism is both important and convincing. ” – Nicholas J. Moore, Durham University, in: Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2022 44.5, August 2022.Table of ContentsContents Introduction  1 Hebrews Scholarship in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries  2 Hebrews Scholarship in the Twenty-First Century  3 Arrangement and Content of This Collection Part 1: The World of Hebrews’s Text 1 “As if by Paul?” Some Remarks on the Textual Strategy of Anonymity in Hebrews  1 Introduction—Hebrews: Pauline or not Pauline, or “Somehow” Connected to a Pauline Environment  2 Anonymity as a Literary Strategy  3 Habakkuk 2:4 in Hebrews and Paul  4 Jesus as Mercy Seat (ἱλαστήριον) in Heb 9:5 and in Rom 3:25?  5 Once for All (ἐφάπαξ) in Hebrews and Paul  6 Brief Conclusion 2 From “Linguistic Turn” and Hebrews Scholarship to Anadiplosis Iterata: The Enigma of a Structure  1 History of Ideas  2 Hebrews Scholarship in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries  3 Structural Analysis: A New Proposal 3 Hebrews, Homiletics, and Liturgical Scripture Interpretation  1 The Ancient Synagogue and its Liturgy  2 The Ancient Synagogue Homily  3 The Two Readings Underlying Hebrews, or its Two Central Scriptural Quotations  4 Hebrews, an Ancient Synagogue Homily and its Remaining Scriptural Quotations  5 Hebrews in the Context of Ancient Synagogue Liturgy 4 Hebrews, an Ancient Synagogue Homily for Tisha be-Av: Its Function, Its Basis, Its Theological Interpretation  1 Introduction  2 The Ancient Synagogue Homily in Its Liturgical Context  3 Hebrews, an Ancient Synagogue Homily for Tisha be-Av  4 Conclusion 5 Rhetorical Criticism in Hebrews Scholarship: Avenues and Aporias  1 A Brief History  2 Exemplary and Theoretical Analysis  3 Summary and Prospects Part 2: The World behind Hebrews’s Text 6 Frei von Blut und Fleisch, Sündenbewusstsein und Todesfurcht: Die Hoffnung auf einen vollkommenen Menschen im Hebräer  1 Einleitung  2 Der kosmische Horizont des Menschenbilds im Hebräer  3 Jesus Christus ist der Mensch—die “christologische” Anthropologie  4 Blut und Fleisch, Seele und Geist, Tod und Leben  5 Geheiligtes Menschsein muss noch im Glauben der Erprobung im Leiden standhalten  6 Versuch einer historischen Kontextualisierung  7 Schluss 7 Charting “Outside the Camp” with Edward W. Soja: Critical Spatiality and Hebrews 13  1 Introduction  2 Hebrews 13 in Scholarship: Riddles about a Key Space  3 Critical Spatiality: An Apt Methodology  4 The Text of Hebrews 13: Overlapping Maps  5 The Primary Intertext of Hebrews 13: Exodus 32–33  6 How the Primary Intertext, Exodus 32–33, Reinterprets Hebrews 13 Spatially  7 Conclusion and Outlook 8 Useless Foods: Communal Meals in Hebrews  1 Introduction  2 The Epistle to the Hebrews and Communal Meals  3 Context, Structure and Content  4 Research History and Central Intertext  5 How the Intertext Exod 32–34 Interprets Heb 13  6 Conclusion 9 Von Bundesbruch zu Bundeserneuerung: Das sühnende Opfer im Hebräer  1 Das Opfer im Neuen Testament und im Hebräer  2 Der kultisch-liturgische Kontext des Hebräers  3 Der theologische Kontext des Hebräers  4 Die kultischen Inhalte des Hebräers  5 Der sühnende Opferkult des Jom Kippur  6 Der sühnende Opferkult im Hebräer  7 Der historische Kontext des Hebräers 10 The Inauguration of Yom Kippur according to the LXX and Its Cessation or Perpetuation according to Hebrews: A Systematic Comparison  1 Introduction  2 Hebrews Scholarship  3 Systematic Comparison of Cultic Elements  4 Conclusion Part 3: The World in Front of Hebrews’s Text 11 Faith in Hebrews and Its Relationship to Soteriology: An Interpretation in the Context of the Concept of Fides in Roman Culture  1 Fides quaerens intellectum?  2 Bicultural Interaction, Not Syncretism  3 Fides and πίστις  4 The Cloud of Witnesses 12 Existence beyond Borders: Hebrews and Critical Spatiality  1 The Turn to Critical Spatiality  2 Mapping the Ancient World with Hebrews  3 “Outside the Camp”: A “Counter Space” in Hebrews 13 13 “Wir haben hier keine bleibende Stadt” (Hebr 13,14): Kritische Raum- und Machtdiskurse im Hebräer  1 Die Wende zur Raumsoziologie (“Critical Spatiality”)  2 Eine Landkarte der Alten Welt: Nach dem Neuen Testament und dem Hebräerbrief  3 “Ausserhalb des Lagers”—Ein “Gegenort” in Hebräer 13 14 The Unshakeable Kingdom in Heaven: Notes on Eschatology in Hebrews  1 Introduction—Eschatology and Apocalypticism  2 Hellenistic and Apocalyptic Eschatology in the Epistle to the Hebrews  3 The Unshakeable Kingdom of Heaven 15 Ethics in Hebrews  1 Introduction  2 Descriptions of Hebrews’s Ethics  3 Ethical-Hermeneutical Evaluations of Hebrews  4 Conclusion Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisIn this study, Vevian Zaki places the Arabic versions of the Pauline Epistles in their historical context, exploring when, where, and how they were produced, transmitted, understood, and adapted among Eastern Christian communities across the centuries. She also considers the transmission and use of these texts among Muslim polemicists, as well as European missionaries and scholars. Underpinning the study is a close investigation of the manuscripts and a critical examination of their variant readings. The work concludes with a case study: an edition and translation of the Epistle to the Philippians from manuscripts London, BL, Or. 8612 and Vatican, BAV, Ar. 13; a comparison of the translation strategies employed in these two versions; and an investigation of the possible relations between them.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1 Definitions  2 The Frame of Reference  3 Sources, Scope, and Limitations  4 History of Research  5 Outline of the Present Work  6 Transcription and Translation Conventions part 1: The Classification of the Versions of the Pauline Epistles in Arabic 2 The Pauline Epistles in Arabic of Greek Origin  1 ArabGr1  2 ArabGr2  3 ArabGr3  4 ArabGr4  5 Concluding Remarks on the Greek-Based Versions 3 The Pauline Epistles in Arabic of Syriac Origin  1 ArabSyr1  2 ArabSyr2  3 ArabSyr3  4 ArabSyr4  5 ArabSyr5  6 Concluding Remarks on Peshitta-Based Versions 4 The Pauline Epistles in Arabic of Coptic Origin  1 The Arabic Bible Translations in the Coptic Church  2 Dependence on ArabSyr3 in the Coptic-Based PEA  3 Features of the Coptic-Based PEA  4 Variant Readings in the Coptic-Based PEA  5 ArabCopt1  6 ArabCopt2  7 ArabCopt3  8 Concluding Remarks on the Coptic-Based Versions 5 The Pauline Epistles in Arabic of Latin Origin  1 ArabLat1 6 The Pauline Epistles in Arabic from Unidentified Origins  1 ArabU1 7 Manuscripts and Versions of the Pauline Epistles in Arabic – Pulling Everything Together  1 Introduction  2 Manuscripts of the PEA  3 Development of Versions of the PEA through the Centuries  4 The Pauline Epistles as a Part of the Bible in Arabic part 2: The Transmission of the Pauline Epistles in Arabic outside Their Communities 8 The Muslim Reception of the Pauline Epistles in Arabic  1 Introduction  2 Versions of the PEA in Muslim Polemical Works  3 Concluding Remarks on the PEA in Polemical Works 9 The Pauline Epistles in Arabic in Europe (Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries)  1 The Acquisition of Manuscripts of the PEA by Europeans  2 European Scholarly Manuscripts of the PEA  3 The Printed PEA part 3: Translation Strategies in the Pauline Epistles in Arabic: A Case Study of Philippians in MSS London, BL, Or. 8612 and Vatican, BAV, Ar. 13 10 The Manuscripts, the Arabic Edition, and the English Translation  1 Introduction  2 The Epistle to the Philippians  3 Description of the Manuscripts  4 Strategy of the Edition  5 The Edition 11 Translation Strategies  1 Introduction  2 Strategies for Translating the Arabic Bible  3 Strategies for Translating Philippians  4 Concluding Remarks and Open Questions on L8612 and V13 12 Conclusions Appendices Appendix A Inventory of Manuscripts Appendix B Variant Readings in the Versions of the Pauline Epistles in Arabic Appendix C East and Non-East Syriac Readings in ArabSyr1 and ArabSyr2 Appendix D Quotations of the Pauline Epistles in Arabic in Islamic Polemical Works Appendix E The Formal Arabic Text of the Epistle to the Philippians in MSS London, BL, Or. 8612 and Vatican, BAV, Ar. 13 Bibliography Index of Names and Subjects Index of Biblical and Qurʾanic References Index of Manuscripts

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Book SynopsisDie vorliegende Studie erkundet die Möglichkeiten, kognitions- und neurowissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse, insbesondere im Bereich der veränderten Bewusstseinszustände, auf biblische Visionserzählungen am Beispiel der Verklärung anzuwenden. _____________________________________ This book explores the possibilities to integrate recent findings from cognitive and neurosciences into biblical exegesis, especially in the field of vision narratives and altered states of consciousness using the example of the Transfiguration .Trade Review“…werden Exegetinnen und Exegeten, die die Anstrengung unternehmen, den von der Autorin gewählten Darstellungsweg nachzuvollziehen, doppelt belohnt: zum einen durch eine erweiterte Sichtweise auf die synoptischen Verklärungserzählungen, zum anderen durch viele Anregungen für eigenes Weiterarbeiten an anderen, häufig an den Rand gedrängten Erzählungen, die von religiösen Erfahrungen handeln.ˮ – Bärbel Bosenius, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, in: Novum Testamentum 65 (1) January 2023

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Book SynopsisCovenant: A Vital Element of Reformed Theology provides a multi-disciplinary reflection on the theme of the covenant, from historical, biblical-theological and systematic-theological perspectives. The interaction between exegesis and dogmatics in the volume reveals the potential and relevance of this biblical motif. It proves to be vital in building bridges between God’s revelation in the past and the actual question of how to live with him today.Trade ReviewInterview with Jaap Dekker about Covenant: A Vital Element of Reformed Theology. By Michael Morales, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary on New Books Network, 23 March 2022. Full link: click here.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction  Hans Burger, Gert Kwakkel and Michael Mulder Part 1: Biblical Perspectives 1 Berith and Covenants in the Old Testament   A Contribution to a Fruitful Cooperation of Exegesis and Systematic Theology  Gert Kwakkel 2 Biblical Covenants in Their Ancient Near Eastern Context   A Methodological, Historical and Theological Reassessment  Koert van Bekkum 3 Covenant in Deuteronomy: The Relationship between the Moab, Horeb, and Patriarchal Covenants  Arie Versluis 4 What Does David Have to Do with It? The Promise of a New Covenant in the Book of Isaiah  Jaap Dekker 5 The New Covenant in the Context of the Book of Jeremiah  Mart-Jan Paul 6 The Concept of Covenant in Luke and Acts   With Special Focus on the Speech of Peter in Acts 3: 12–26  Arco den Heijer 7 Is Covenant an Important Concept for the New Testament?   Galatians 4: 21–31 as a Test Case  Donald E. Cobb 8 Covenant, Election and Israel’s Responsibility   A Clarification through an Intertextual Analysis of Quotations from Scripture in Romans 10  Michael Mulder Part 2: Historical Perspectives 9 Not for Gentiles? The Covenant in Mekhilta de-Rabbi Ishmael  Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman 10 The Concept of the ‘New Covenant’ (Jeremiah 31: 27–40) in Ancient Jewish Reception History  Aaron Chun Fai Wan 11 From Zurich to Westminster: Covenant as Structuring Principle in Reformed Catechisms  Daniël Timmerman 12 Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575) and the Covenant of Works  Pierrick Hildebrand 13 Friendship, Covenant, and Law: The Doctrine of the Covenant of Works in Johannes Braun (1628–1708)  Matthias Mangold 14 The Fruitfulness of a Paradox: The Doctrine of the Covenant in Wilhelmus à Brakel (1635–1711) Reapplied  Willem van Vlastuin Part 3: Systematic-Theological Perspectives 15 Covenant Theology as Trinitarian Theology   A Discussion of The Contributions of Michael S. Horton, Scott W. Hahn, and N.T. Wright  Arnold Huijgen 16 Theology without a Covenant of Works   A Thought Experiment  Hans Burger 17 Conditions in the Covenant  Dolf te Velde 18 The Meaning of ‘Covenant’ in Educational Practices   Towards a Framework for Qualitative Research  Bram de Muynck Part 4: Concluding Reflections 19 Covenantal Theology: Risks and Chances of a Controversial Term  Georg Plasger Index

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